Word: birthrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state, where the attitude toward the Governor has been one of adulation, there was a sharp change. "I voted for our Governor" Mrs. Raymond A. Busier wrote the Montgomery Advertiser, "but if I can be forgiven, I'll never again. Wake up Alabamians, before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage." State Representative Kenneth Ingram protested in the Birmingham News that he had previously considered Wallace "a champion of conservatism, but now I find that he is advocating what appears to me to be liberalization of our very own Alabama constitution...
Without it there can be no life, and down through the ages man has accepted the water around him as a gift from God-a birthright to be squandered or saved according to the demands of circumstance. Confident of an unending supply from earth's mighty rivers and timeless seas, man has wasted water and polluted it. Parched by unpredictable droughts, he has migrated thousands of miles to slake his thirst. He has fought over it since ancient times: Sennacherib of Assyria revenged himself on Babylon by dumping debris in the city's canals; today armed Arabs...
Simone: You may have been right at one time, but what you are forgetting is the revolution in contraception. Sex is a part of modern woman's birthright, for it is no longer inseparable from procreation, Miss Anthony. It no longer carries with it for women the torturous uncertainties and back-breaking obligations of pregnancy...
...Roving Commission. For the Churchills, greatness has been a birthright. Winston was born and raised amid the splendors of Blenheim Palace, the 320-room mansion that a grateful nation bestowed on his ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. School, by contrast, bored him; he was a poor student who allowed in later life that "no one has ever passed so few examinations and received so many degrees." Fame was always his spur. As a newly commissioned subaltern in the 4th Queen's Own Hussars, he searched impatiently for battlefields to prove his mettle. It was a poor...
...sentimental over our memories, and committed enough to concrete personal goals not to reach after flimsy national destinies. Most important, the holiday we will go through the motions of celebrating next week no longer represents the spirit and values of the nation. Americans regard affluence as a birthright, not a providential boon. There is no point in our communing with an impoverished past as long as we keep on getting richer...